The pretreatment conundrum: How do we recover all of the biomass components (hemicelluose/lignin/etc) in a useable form while producing a readily hydrolyzed cellulosic substrate?
Richard P. Chandra and Jack N. Saddler, Forest Products Biotechnology/Bioenergy Group, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Green liquor pretreatment of mixed hardwood for the production of ethanol in a repurposed kraft mill
Hasan Jameel, Richard Phillips, Hou-min Chang and Sunkyu Park, Forest Biomaterials, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Combined acid catalysis for hydrothermal pretreatment of Miscanthus
Bin Guo, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, Eberhard Morgenroth, Institute of Environmental Engineering Urban Water Management, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Yuanhui Zhang, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

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Comparison of ethanol production in high solids SSF of SPORL and dilute acid pretreated aspen
J. Y. Zhu¹, Rolland Gleisner¹, Tim Scott¹, Xiaolin Luo² and Shen Tian³, (1)USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, WI, (2)South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, (3)College of Life Science, Capital Normal University

Understanding the impact of ionic liquid pretreatment on cellulose and lignin via thermochemical analysis
Patanjali Varanasi, Manfred Auer, Priyanka Singh, Paul D. Adams, Blake Simmons and Seema Singh, Physical Biosciences Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA

Phosphoric acid-catalysed steam explosion of sugarcane biomass
Ana Paula Pitarelo, Danielle Szczerbowski, Marcos H. L. Silveira, Rodrigo S. Aguiar, Arion Zandoná Filho and Luiz P. Ramos, Department of Chemistry, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil